Not only did Kissinger embrace with gusto that approach, but he achieved a degree of strategic success that certainly strengthened America’s position in the Cold War, and arguably fended off a communist victory. 1968, as the series makes clear, was America’s nadir in the almost fifty-year Cold War. America had suffered if not a battlefield, then a huge political defeat in Tet, the country was falling apart, the entire containment strategy under assault, with the streets ablaze and a president quitting.
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